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A work made of color woodblock print; otanzaku.

Loquat and bird

Utagawa Hiroshige · early 1830s

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Palette

Steel blue
 42% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.2:1
Pale stone
 35% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1
Ash
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Blue-grey
 8% of the image
Teal · text contrast 4.7:1
Salmon
 1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 8.6:1
Peach
 1% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 10.6:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
Japanese, 1797-1858
Date
early 1830s
Type
Print
Medium
Color woodblock print; otanzaku
Size
38.2 × 17.2 cm (15 × 6 3/4 in.)
Place
Japan
Period
19th century
Themes
Birds
Main colour
Blue · lightness 61, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1858: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1929. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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